Chinese Up My New Year.

It's the year of the dragon.  Hot news.

Some friends of mine and I went down to Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

I thought we were spending our day studying dragons and dragon-behavioral-science.  But as it turns out what we actually witnessed was a Lion Dance.











I still learned a lot about Chinese lions.  I am going to break that down for you.

• Lions require snacks to dance.  They most prefer lettuce and oranges. 
• Despite the presence of PLENTY of young, fresh, fleshy children, lions are COMPLETELY vegan and did not take ONE bite of any child.
• Lions are extremely messy eaters.  I mean really, I was a little embarrassed for them.
• Lions hang out with trouble makers.  Although I witnessed no lions themselves light anything on fire, I saw their trouble-making companions light all sorts of things on fire.

That's the generalized breakdown of what lions are like, best I could gather.  The lion dance parade itself is an interesting thing.  It's a parade you follow around while they go from business to business dancing, making a mess with lettuce, tossing oranges at my head (true story, I got SMACKED hard upside the head by a wayward lion-orange), taking cards full of money, playing the drums and lighting off firecrackers.

It's totally fun!




Here's some cute-ass, vegan lions:

Glad I could provide you with a touch of culture.

Happy New Year!